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Fairly Secure, Actually  via Creative Commons Search Many of us had assumed our feeble Gmail passwords were secure enough to keep pryi...

Opinion: Who is Obama kidding? Without Snowden, there would be no NSA debate.

When evangelists pontificate the benefits of Linux, the topic of security always comes up. A big selling point of Linux-based operating systems are that they

Lavabit, an email service offering encrypted communications that are supposedly impenetrable by third parties, shut down this week after it came to light that National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden was using it to communicate from Moscow.

Not every suspension-of-service notice for an e-mail company comes with a link to a legal-defense fund.

The highly encrypted email service reportedly used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has gone offline - and its administrator claims the company is legally barred from explaining why.

Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail?…

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Chrome does something interesting when you first run it. The other day, I was using Chrome in development for an Ember.js app. I use Safari for day-to-day browsing, but it has a habit of aggressively caching files when I least expect it, so from... | Elliott Kember | Drone developer, software pilot.

Jean-Louis Gassée: Total surveillance is the enemy of innovation, of anything that threatens public or private incumbents

Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping.

A loosely organized group of techies has started teaching ordinary people how to encrypt their emails, and protect their communication from prying eyes.

Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation 'Go Dark,' Evading Wiretaps

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The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users'

Larry Cuban has been studying technology in schools for decades. Nearly 30 years ago, he wrote a book on how little previous technologies, including radio, film, and television, were used in school…

NSA spying programs give access to US citizens’ private data to low-level analysts with little court approval or supervision, says Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story on Washington’s PRISM surveillance system.

Not too many people get out of bed in the morning, head in to work, and say to themselves “I’m really looking forward to screwing up today!” Sure, there are always a few bad apples with horrible attitudes... Read More

Typically eloquent Noam Chomsky, speaking this weekend at the Geneva Press Club: My own opinion is that Snowden should be honored. He was doing what every citizen ought to do, telling. [Applause] He was telling Americans what the government was doing. That’s what’s supposed to happen. Governments as I mentioned before always plead security no…